Market Risk Manager

Job Description

hackajob is collaborating with American Express to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role. Identify, assess, and quantify market risk exposures across interest rates, foreign exchange (FX), and debt investment portfolios on banking book, ensuring alignment with the organization’s risk appetite and established risk limits. Conduct independent risk assessments and provide effective challenges on key Treasury risk processes including methodologies, models, key assumptions, reporting, governance, and controls, providing oversight across interest rate risk (IRR) management, FX hedging, and investment risk. Define, calibrate, and monitor non-trading market risk limits, escalation thresholds, and key risk indicators to ensure exposures remain within approved risk tolerances. Develop and implement robust asset liability management (ALM) policies, procedures, governance and controls in compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices. Perform independent reviews of end-to-end Treasury risk management practices, ensuring appropriate governance and controls, and clear definition on roles and responsibilities between 1LOD and 2LOD are in place. Lead the management of the interest rate risk, FX risk, investment risk pillars within the risk appetite framework, overseeing senior management communications, committee presentations, and Board reporting. Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including Risk, Treasury, Finance, Compliance and internal audit teams, to ensure a holistic approach to market risk oversight. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Econometrics, Operations Research, or a related field. 4-8 years of experience in risk management, Treasury, or financial markets; preferably experience with asset liability management, specifically interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB), FX risk management, and investment risk oversight Strong understanding of interest rate and FX risk management principles, methodologies, regulatory frameworks and key interest rate risk metrics e.g., Earning at Risk and Economic Value of Equity. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; experience with risk analytics tools and financial modeling is a plus. Show more Show less